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Amateur astrophotography image of the Orion Nebula through a telescope.

The Orion Nebula is one of the brightest nebulae in the night sky, and is visible to the naked eye. This magnitude 4 interstellar cloud of ionized atomic hydrogen contains a young open cluster of four primary stars known as the Trapezium.

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the large mage in the sky is surrounded by stars and other light years away from earth

The nebulae, in the sword of Orion, are the brightest in the northern skies and include the Orion Nebula itself (M42), de Mairan's Nebula (M43) and the Running Man Nebula (NGC 1977). They are 1500 light years away and are visible to the naked eye.

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an image of a very large star in the sky

-Celestron NightScape CCD @ prime with an f/6.3 reducer -Celestron NexGuide Autoguider -80mm guidescope -C8 SCT -CG-5 -1x300s, 2x100s, 2x60s, 2x30s exposures collected on 10/05/12 from 3am-5:30am in Honolulu, UH Dorms basketball court. FOV moved while I was trying to lock down the guide star, so the shot isn't centered :( Slightly out of focus and/or some tracking error (I think due to the guide star not being in proper focus, I could see it jumping a little in the crosshairs. I guess…

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an image of the sky with stars and clouds in it, as seen from space

M78 is a reflection nebula that's a part of the Orion Molecular Cloud complex. This area is a complex combination of reflection nebula and dark dust lanes and it's a region that I've wanted to image ...

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